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Among the persimmon trees, flowering perennials and cover crops on the west side of campus, more than two dozen graduate students and postdoctoral researchers gathered at the Stanford Educational Farm to develop new perceptions of the scope of their research and their place on the planet.
Stanford’s scholarly communities are poised to lead the long-range vision “to accelerate our purposeful impact in the world.” At the Oct. 21 Faculty Senate meeting, Stacey F. Bent, vice provost of graduate education and postdoctoral affairs, announced the Research, Action and Impact for Strategic...
Provost Persis Drell told the Faculty Senate Thursday that a committee has been charged with developing recommendations for a process to create a new institute on the study of race, ethnicity and society. The Faculty Senate also heard updates on the university’s response to COVID-19 and the state...
For decades the auto industry crash tested new models for safety considerations the old-fashioned way: They crashed them – over and over and over again. It was slow and expensive, but it worked. Today those tests have given way to computer simulations that are so reliable that rarely, if ever, are...
Stanford will mark the university’s inaugural Democracy Day on Tuesday, Nov. 2, with a daylong series of events, beginning with Donuts & Democracy – an exercise in deliberative polling – and ending with “Boys State,” an award-winning documentary film.
Undergraduate and graduate students are...
